Showing posts with label eric shalwell. Show all posts
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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

February, 2024, Part 7, Political Class Insanity: Biden's Failed Immigration Policies Continue To Plague Americans And A Washington Politician Lives The Good Life

 Every month we devote posts to just general political class insanity that is running rampant through the country. The members of the American political class continue to show that they are incapable of operating any level of government in this country. 

Even their best efforts are almost always inefficient and ineffective at resolving any problem facing Americans. They spend a great amount of time not trying to improve the lives of their citizens but continually ensuring their reelection and enriching themselves, their families, and their friends in the process, all at taxpayer expense.


1)We have  often made the point that the Washington political class members often take care of themselves first, their political handlers and donors second, illegal immigrants third, and if they have the time and energy, American citizens. They trade on insider government information to make themselves rich. They hand out taxpayer money to their political supporters, not to make life better for Amee

ricans, but to ensure they have a steady flow of political campaigns to themselves, which they often direct towards their own self enrichment and the enrichment of friends and families.


Congressman Eric Swalwell recently reinforced this portrait of Washington greed:


  • It recently came to light that his reelection campaign organization, “Swalwell for Congress,” saw hundreds of thousands of dollars be diverted to pay for his travel expenses, high end dinners, and luxury spa visits.

  • According to Federal Election Commission records, these personal expenses came to over $350,000.

  • And these recorded expenses did not include stays at a Holiday Inn Express but stays at very high end hotels (e.g. Aman in New York and Peninsula Shanghai) along with tens  of thousands of dollars spent at high end airport lounges.

  • The dining expenses include over $200,000 in meals at high end restaurants, where meals in some cases the average cost per person was hundreds of dollars.

  • $63,500 was paid for luxury spa experiences in spas that ranged from California,  his home state,  to Hawaii.

  • Shalwell’s spokesperson not only defended the wasteful  spending on self indulgence by saying these expenses were legal but also tried to hideously claim that they were necessary for the Congressman to effectively reach out to his constituents.


If he had any type of moral  compass, he could have idled back this ridiculous opulent living and spending and donated that money to those in need in his district. That would not only buy him political gain but it would also help out those Americans in need. But no, like most in Washington, his needs come first as does his extravagant lifestyle.


2)One of the cities in the country facing dire economic hardships as a result of Biden’s failed immigration policies is Demver. We have often discussed the strain that the 40,000 illegal immigrants that have come to the city are putting on taxpayer funded resources. 


The city government, which in a sense deserves this crisis since their politicians  for years have sanctimoniously yelled that they were a “sanctuary city” for illegal immigrants, have had to cut government services to American citizens to feed, house, and medically service the 40,000 illegal immigrants. City residents that are homeless, hungry, and facing medical crises have taken a backseat to the care and tending of the illegal immigrants in the city.


And  now that crisis has reached another aspect of Denver’s citizens:


  • The influx of illegal immigrants is adding about 250 students to Demver public schools a week.

  • The Denver  public schools superintendent, Alex Marrero, has called this eruption of new students an “unprecedented challenge.”

  • This immigration influx of students has already cost the city $837,000 “to support additional needs across the [school] system.”

  • Obviously, it is Denver taxpayers that will be shelling out at least this amount of money for supporting the illegal  immigrant student load.

  • In the past year and half the school system has taken on 3,000 more students which has required the hiring of more staff, with the focus on bilingual teachers.


As we mentioned under the above Shalwell discussion, Washington politicians care more about illegal  immigrants and it is the American taxpayers and citizens that are paying the price for these Washington attitudes. Denver is a perfect example of Washington politicians disdain for the well being of Americans and the prudent use of their tax dollars.

3)Staying with the illegal  immigrant crisis, it is conservatively estimated that about 7,000,000 people have illegally entered the country since Biden took office. This means that, conservatively:


  • More people have illegally entered the country than the populations of 33 states.

  • These 7,000,000 illegal  immigrants, if they had their own state, would have more people than states like Maryland, Indiana, Missouri, and Wisconsin to just name a few.

  • If they had one state, they would have more people than the populations of Delaware, Rhode Island, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, and the District of Columbia combined.


As we have often noted, while many of these 7,000,000 people just want a better life for themselves, those 7,000,000 also include drug cartel members, South and Central American gang members, children and adult sex traffickers, terrorist elements, and other not very nice people. This has resulted in  innocent Americans being raped, attacked, murdered, and robbed, atrocities that likely would have  not happened if Biden had an semblance of a strong immigration plan and enforcement.


A very, very basic tenet of any government organization is to protect the lives and property of the citizens they serve. Obviously, Biden has failed miserably in executing this government tenet.


4)Let’s revisit another failure of Biden’s immigration policies that we have discussed previously:

  • Many of the illegal immigrants that have entered the country are kids without any parent or adult attachments.

  • These often got here in the U.S. because cartels, human smuggling rings, and freelance smugglers got them into the country for a price.

  • The liberal leaning, left wing New York Times recently published two reports on the widespread abuse, exploitation, and trafficking of kids.

  • According to the Times reporting, many kids are being forced to work in meatpacking plants, food processing plants, and construction jobs, basically serving as slave labor because any money they garner is going to the smugglers who smuggled them into the country.

  • The Federal government, currently being operated by the Biden administration is responsible for caring for these kids they find coming over the border and finding sponsors to house, feed, and care for them.

  • Once a kid is placed with a sponsor the Federal  government is supposed to call their sponsor to see how the kids are doing.

  • However, government reports confirm and admit that of the 300,000 kids that the Biden administration has placed with sponsors, a whopping 85,000 of those kids have disappeared and the Biden administration has no idea where they are and whether they are safe or being exploited.


So not only does the Washington political class not care about American citizens in need but also do not seem to care about the welfare of the kids they have apprehended at the border and then lost somewhere in the country. They have literally lost the whereabouts of over 25% of the kids they once had responsibility for. They have not idea where 85,000 kids are and what their life, health, and well being is. Pathetic treatment of a most vulnerable population.


https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/biden-border-crisis/


That will do it for today’s Insanity: Biden’s failed immigration  policies continue to bring havoc to American citizens and another Washington politician continues to live the good life.


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Sunday, February 27, 2022

February, 2022, Part 5, Political Class Insanity: Homeless Failure In LA, Hypocrisy From Shalwell, And Defund the Police Failures in Atlanta and NYC

 It is the beginning of another month which means it is time again to review the latest political class insanity from the American political class. Each month it takes us multiple posts to cover the wasteful spending, incompetent government organizations and employees, government programs that usually make a problem worse than resolving it, inane and idiotic politician comments, etc.

To review past posts on this insanity and idiocy, just click on the first few posts in each month listed to the right of this page. After reviewing just a handful of these insanity posts we think you will agree that we are currently being served by the worst set of American politicians ever to hold office in our entire history. 

1) There is no doubt that the country is facing a homeless problem and the problem is most acute in the state of California and the county of Los Angeles, both home to the largest state and city homeless populations in the country. It is so sad that American politicians have not been able to come up with any viable solutions to this problem despite spending untold billions and billions of dollars on it. The problem just keeps getting worse.


But maybe these are not the right people to think can resolve the problem, as witnessed by this disaster out in LA:


  • Proposition HHH is an LA  project that was going to spend $1.2 billion to provide housing for the city’s homeless population.

  • But according to the Associated Press, so far it has cost the city over $700,000 on average to provide one unit of housing for the homeless.

  • One of the project's efforts  cost a whopping $837,000 a piece.

  • This finding was the result of a city audit of the program and was found by LA City Controller, Ron Galpern, to be “wholly inadequate.”

  • According to the audit: “While future plans have not been finalized, building tens of thousands of additional units using the same model will likely cost billions of dollars and will take far too long to match the urgency of the ongoing homeless emergency.” 

  • In addition, the audit concluded that the city must “find new ways to scale up faster and cheaper projects.”


Another failure of the political class to fix anything efficiently, effectively, and on time. Given that the city budget to address the homeless population has gone from about $10 million in 2013 to $1 billion nine years later supports the notion that city and state politicians have no idea how to fix the problem but have spent and wasted billions of dollars in their failed attempt to do so.


2) Politicians are also very good at being hypocrites. The most glaring, recent example of such hypocrisy was their behavior during the bad days of the covid crisis. Too many politicians set forth draconian restrictions on their constituents’ social behavior but then went and ignored those very restrictions that they insisted their citizens follow. 


Consider some of the latest political class hypocrisy:


  • Eric Swalwell is a California Democrat in Congress.

  • He was an active advocate for the false proposition that Donald Trump was in cahoots with Russia, a proposition that has been proven to be total fiction.

  • But we now know that Swalwell has been the recipient of campaign election donations from a high level lobbyist for a Russian pipeline company.

  • He got $2,900 from Vincent Roberti of the Roberti Global lobbyist group in 2021.

  • He also got $5,400 from Roberti in 2018 as reported by the Washington Free Beacon.

  • Ths company received $2.4 million from the pipeline company, Nord Stream 2 AG, which Biden supported prior to the invasion of Ukraine.

  • Compare his eagerness to take money from a lobbyist tied to vital Russian energy interests vs. what he had to say about Trump: “Not only does his [Trump] past and current team have ties to Russia, but the President himself also does. He has traveled to Russia extensively, done business there often, and has ties to Russian interests. . . Why is America’s leader and his team so close to Russia? This is either due to poor judgement or a deeper personal, financial, or political link between President Trump and Russia. It is not normal for the leader of our country to be so extensively tied to a foreign government that has sought to undermine democracies across the globe, and connections like these should be concerning to American citizens everywhere.”

  • Oh, by the way, Roberti has also contributed to other Democrats including Pelosi, Schumer, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, all of whom falsely accused Trump of having corrupt ties to Russia.


As often the case of American politicians, follow the money not their words to find out what is truly going on. Swalwell is no exception.


3) We have all too often discussed the reality that “defunding the police” movement has been a total and often fatal disaster. Large, liberal, Democratic controlled cities got on the defund the police bandwagon over the past couple of years, stripping budget and personnel resources from their city police forces. And without exception, those cities, Chicago, NewYork, LA and others, have seen dramatic rises in violent crime within their city borders.


And while most of our previous discussions of this political failure of been in cities like Chicago and NYC, apparently Atlanta is also a victim of its own defund the police initiative:


  • Murders in Atlanta are already up 43% this year.

  • At this rate the city will break last year’s mark of 153 homicides, a number that was a 30 year high for the city.

  • Rapes are up 236%, burglaries are up 1%, and shopliftng cases are up 4%.

  • One of the more ridiculous excuses for poor performance by a politician, former mayor Kesha Lance Bottoms blamed the relaxing of covid restrictions for the increase in crime, not her failed policies and administration.

  • In her opinion, prematurely lifting covid restrictions caused people to come to her city to party in bars and then go out and rape and murder others, nonsense.

  • The new mayor has a more realistic approach to stopping crime including installing thousands of cameras and hiring hundreds of more police officers.


A very, very basic function of government is to protect the lives and property of citizens. If a government entity, and the politicians that operate it, cannot provide this basic service, then they are a failure regardless of whatever else they think they  accomplished. Thus, the former mayor is a failure under this very simple but important tenet.


4) Besides Atlanta, NYC continues to victimize its citizens after it defunded its police department:


  • At least six people were recently stabbed in the city’s subway as violence continues to grow in the city.

  • The first of these latest attacks occurred less than 24 hours after the mayor announced his new plan to combat subway violence.

  • Subway attacks are up over 65% this year vs. last year.

  • These attacks include assault, stabbing, and pushing people into oncoming trains.

  • Many of the attacks have been caused by homeless people and drug addicts, many of whom have serious mental problems.


Too early to tell if the mayor’s new program will help curtail the violence. We hope it works. But given the track record of politicians protecting the lives and property of citizens, the trend is not good.  


That will do it for today but more of the same failed behavior of our politicians: failure to protect the safety of citizens, the continued and fatal failure of the defund the police movement,  and hypocrisy continues to be a standard behavior of the American politician.


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